Tiger_Moth: I wasn't talking to you but seeing as you have responded in your usual vitriolic manner I'll reply
It's a Getty image,and I really don't care if no-one on here likes me, especially you, as you are of little importance in my life old man.
Well yhis is my thread, and you have persistently tried to bring me down, if you want to leave this thread please do. You are indeed a bitter old woman,please go away, and troll someone else.
In this day and age there shouldn't be homeless people ............in this country.seeing an elderly. Man sitting in a doorway. With a wet blanket over him to keep the rain out. Is sickening. A few months ago a army barracks was burnt to the ground because the peop!e who crossed the channel.......said it wasn't good enough for them......that poor man soaking wet in the. Doorway. Whom I saw would have jumped at the chance of living there. Had he been given the choice................my voice to the government ..........be a. Shamed of yourself..........you Lilly lived lot
truheart1941: In this day and age there shouldn't be homeless people ............in this country.seeing an elderly. Man sitting in a doorway. With a wet blanket over him to keep the rain out. Is sickening. A few months ago a army barracks was burnt to the ground because the peop!e who crossed the channel.......said it wasn't good enough for them......that poor man soaking wet in the. Doorway. Whom I saw would have jumped at the chance of living there. Had he been given the choice................my voice to the government ..........be a. Shamed of yourself..........you Lilly lived lot
truheart1941: In this day and age there shouldn't be homeless people ............in this country.seeing an elderly. Man sitting in a doorway. With a wet blanket over him to keep the rain out. Is sickening. A few months ago a army barracks was burnt to the ground because the peop!e who crossed the channel.......said it wasn't good enough for them......that poor man soaking wet in the. Doorway. Whom I saw would have jumped at the chance of living there. Had he been given the choice................my voice to the government ..........be a. Shamed of yourself..........you Lilly lived lot
You can blame the Governments over the years for that True as they have failed badly in providing Social Housing and then we had Maggie Thatcher selling off council properties in the 80's most of whom were bought cheap and sold expensive.
Tiger_Moth: You can blame the Governments over the years for that True as they have failed badly in providing Social Housing and then we had Maggie Thatcher selling off council properties in the 80's most of whom were bought cheap and sold expensive.
My late Mum and Dad bought their Council House, having lived and rented it for over 30 years "I'm going back to the early 50's when they moved in" Why shouldn't they have the chance to buy it? From what I remember, you had to have lived and rented the property for a "certain" amount of years to have the opportunity to "buy" it. When they sold it in the late 80's as my Mum suffered from a massive stroke so couldn't live there anymore. They only got half of what it was worth, as people still classed it as a Council House.
Miss_Cellaneous: My late Mum and Dad bought their Council House, having lived and rented it for over 30 years "I'm going back to the early 50's when they moved in" Why shouldn't they have the chance to buy it? From what I remember, you had to have lived and rented the property for a "certain" amount of years to have the opportunity to "buy" it. When they sold it in the late 80's as my Mum suffered from a massive stroke so couldn't live there anymore. They only got half of what it was worth, as people still classed it as a Council House.
I agree with you a hundred% but tell that to the grab all byches,
jagtom: I agree with you a hundred% but tell that to the grab all byches,
My Mum and Dad grafted all their lives, and I mean "Hard bloody work" My Dad fought with the "Gurkhas" in Burma in WW2 then worked in a Foundry whilst my Mum worked in a Cotton Mill. Us kids were taught how to stoke up a coal fire, chop the wood etc..My kids and grandkids love hearing the stories They even ask me if I come from the dinosaur age Bless them. After my Mum passed away, some scroat broke into my Dads apartment that was in a supposedly secure Elderly Social Housing Accommodation. They stole his "Burma Cross" plus the two tiny silver samuria swords with 3 tiny sapphires in them He went down hill fast after that
Miss_Cellaneous: My Mum and Dad grafted all their lives, and I mean "Hard bloody work" My Dad fought with the "Gurkhas" in Burma in WW2 then worked in a Foundry whilst my Mum worked in a Cotton Mill. Us kids were taught how to stoke up a coal fire, chop the wood etc..My kids and grandkids love hearing the stories They even ask me if I come from the dinosaur age Bless them. After my Mum passed away, some scroat broke into my Dads apartment that was in a supposedly secure Elderly Social Housing Accommodation. They stole his "Burma Cross" plus the two tiny silver samuria swords with 3 tiny sapphires in them He went down hill fast after that
Morning Cell.
It had it's advantages as you have pointed out but the Right to buy, for all its appealingly inclusive rhetoric, was not a right available to all. Those who could not afford to exercise it tended to be lone parents, younger tenants, people living on their own, or the unemployed or low-skilled. Also rentals on Council homes rose considerably by 55% in 1991.
Not everyone was a winner but the Government won hands down. £692m from council-home sales in 1980–1, £1.394bn in 1981–2, £1.981bn in 1982–3.
It had it's advantages as you have pointed out but the Right to buy, for all its appealingly inclusive rhetoric, was not a right available to all. Those who could not afford to exercise it tended to be lone parents, younger tenants, people living on their own, or the unemployed or low-skilled. Also rentals on Council homes rose considerably by 55% in 1991.
Not everyone was a winner but the Government won hands down. £692m from council-home sales in 1980–1, £1.394bn in 1981–2, £1.981bn in 1982–3.
foot Well, I know many people who got their foot on the rung of the ladder with a council house deal, I Have been in some council houses that were credit to the idea of home ownership and good English working-class efforts in their renovation and modernisation. Although I disagree with selling off national assets generally in this case it helped so many people and thank God they weren't given to economic refugees. I am surprised you can show no compassion in the cases mentioned in this thread. I do feel compassion for these members and hope they can recover psychologically from their trauma. Shame on you TM
jagtom: foot Well, I know many people who got their foot on the rung of the ladder with a council house deal, I Have been in some council houses that were credit to the idea of home ownership and good English working-class efforts in their renovation and modernisation. Although I disagree with selling off national assets generally in this case it helped so many people and thank God they weren't given to economic refugees. I am surprised you can show no compassion in the cases mentioned in this thread. I do feel compassion for these members and hope they can recover psychologically from their trauma. Shame on you TM
Once again you stick your beak into my comment to another poster and name call without bothering to digest the comments. If you had a brain you'd be dangerous to be honest.
I am nor never was against people being able to buy their own homes but apart from the Government lining their own pockets from the deal it has now reduced Social housing over the years. I have more empathy for the poorer classes in Council Houses at that time ,due to low wages ,that were not in the position to buy due to their impoverished circumstances. Egalitarianism that failed for some people.
Breakfast...consists of such satisfying meals as oat or rice porridge, rye bread with herb cheese and salt-cured salmon, eggs, traditional pastries and pies with fruit jam, and yogurt with freshly picked berries.
jac_the_gripper: Breakfast...consists of such satisfying meals as oat or rice porridge, rye bread with herb cheese and salt-cured salmon, eggs, traditional pastries and pies with fruit jam, and yogurt with freshly picked berries.
A full British cooked breakfast with at least some imported food seems an odd choice under the cultural circumstances.
jac_the_gripper: Breakfast...consists of such satisfying meals as oat or rice porridge, rye bread with herb cheese and salt-cured salmon, eggs, traditional pastries and pies with fruit jam, and yogurt with freshly picked berries.
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